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Comment on A River Ran Under Them by dalesbred https://alondonfamily.com/2019/05/01/a-river-ran-under-them/comment-page-1/#comment-958
Thu, 02 May 2019 12:10:59 +0000http://alondonfamily.com/?p=17980#comment-958Thank you, fascinating as always, and highlighting the work of civil engineers. We forget how they have improved our conditions. I could not help think about the clear rivers James Skelton left behind, singing over stones, stained by peat after rain, trout, wagtails, lined with alders and willows ……

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Comment on Looking for the Lost by The Incidental Genealogist https://alondonfamily.com/2019/04/01/looking-for-the-lost/comment-page-1/#comment-931
Mon, 15 Apr 2019 14:40:03 +0000http://alondonfamily.com/?p=17938#comment-931Thanks for your comment, Marion. I’m also really interested in the old Celtic water sources (holy/healing wells) where often religious buildings and communities sprang up. And south London had it’s fair share of wells and spas (which I’ll hopefully get to mention next month when I talk about the Effra).

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Comment on Looking for the Lost by dalesbred https://alondonfamily.com/2019/04/01/looking-for-the-lost/comment-page-1/#comment-919
Sun, 07 Apr 2019 14:06:04 +0000http://alondonfamily.com/?p=17938#comment-919Absolutely fascinating. We forget that rivers were important water sources and essential for the establishment of settlements. We just turn on a tap and the water is there. Always ask WHY was anything in the location that it is ? And the availability of water, either springs or rivers, often now long gone, answers the question. I had not heard of the River Effra before.

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Comment on Portrait of my Grandmother in Later Life by The Incidental Genealogist https://alondonfamily.com/2019/03/01/a-portait-of-my-grandmother-in-later-life/comment-page-1/#comment-836
Sun, 03 Mar 2019 12:55:07 +0000http://alondonfamily.com/?p=17844#comment-836Thanks so much for your positive comments. It has been a great way for me to learn about social history and understand my own family. I would certainly recommend it, although it can be rather time-consuming!

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Comment on Portrait of my Grandmother in Later Life by whiteroadsforever https://alondonfamily.com/2019/03/01/a-portait-of-my-grandmother-in-later-life/comment-page-1/#comment-832
Sat, 02 Mar 2019 20:18:41 +0000http://alondonfamily.com/?p=17844#comment-832I’ve been reading your postings for quite some time, and really enjoy your family sagas. Thank you for sharing the stories and pictures in your quest to understand the past.

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Comment on The Kipling Connection or Not So Great Expectations by Linda George https://alondonfamily.com/2017/09/01/the-kipling-connection-or-not-so-great-expectations/comment-page-1/#comment-725
Fri, 18 Jan 2019 23:32:20 +0000http://alondonfamily.com/?p=15284#comment-725I find there are not enough hours in that day, I could spend all my time researching. However, I have various family and a huge Lurcher that also demand my time but would be very interested to see anything you have time to send to me.

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Comment on The Kipling Connection or Not So Great Expectations by The Incidental Genealogist https://alondonfamily.com/2017/09/01/the-kipling-connection-or-not-so-great-expectations/comment-page-1/#comment-724
Fri, 18 Jan 2019 21:06:24 +0000http://alondonfamily.com/?p=15284#comment-724Thanks so much for sharing this wonderful story of Olive Turney with me. It’s learning of these things that makes all the research and writing worthwhile. I’m so glad you were able to find out about the Floersheims this way. I’ll email you with more information!

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Comment on The Kipling Connection or Not So Great Expectations by Linda George https://alondonfamily.com/2017/09/01/the-kipling-connection-or-not-so-great-expectations/comment-page-1/#comment-693
Tue, 08 Jan 2019 23:04:22 +0000http://alondonfamily.com/?p=15284#comment-693I was researching my husband’s great aunt this evening, as she had an interesting life. Sadly I never met her, as she died just a few years before I married her great nephew.

Olive Turney was born in Aston Clinton in 1891, her father was a blacksmith, who later developed his business into the village garage.

Olive had gone into service by 1911 and was a housemaid for Louis Floersheim and family, in Hove. It was googling his name that brought me to your blog and it was very interesting to read about the family she worked for. Although she didn’t have such a grand lifestyle, she did have an interesting life.

Olive soon went into nursing probably because of WW1 and I have photos of her in various wards, with soldier patients. Somewhere in this time, Olive, who had a fiance, much liked by the family, was robbed of her life savings when her intended made off with all her money!

By 1939 she was a nurse, specialising in mental health, working at Napsbury, where she cared for the famous cat artist Louis Wain but not too long after she went on to be the matron at Champneys, were the great and good went to detox and recover their nerves.

She semi-retired and went to care for a wealthy Swiss couple in their home but when she finally decided to retire, the lady she found to replace her had a cob-walled, thatched cottage in Suffolk that she needed to sell. So Olive bought the cottage and moved in. At that time it was a one of a pair of cottages. The neighbour was an admiral in the Royal Navy, retired and neglected by his family. Olive, by now something of a man hater, decided to look after her elderly neighbour and much to the annoyance of his family, when he died he left his cottage to Olive. That didn’t stop the family from coming and taking anything they thought to be of value though.

The final part of the story: Olive converted the two cottages into one and when she died, she left it to my mother-in-law.

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Comment on Portrait of my Grandfather as a Civilian by Marion m https://alondonfamily.com/2018/12/01/portrait-of-my-grandfather-as-a-civilian/comment-page-1/#comment-628
Thu, 20 Dec 2018 14:12:07 +0000http://alondonfamily.com/?p=17691#comment-628The photograph at the top with your grandfather at the picnic, it struck me how formal he looked with jacket and tie. But many people did not have many clothes, a Sunday Best Suit, and a set of working clothes and that was it. So the picnic was a special day and he wore his Sunday Best. Lovely photograph for you to treasure.

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Comment on Portrait of my Grandfather as a Soldier by The Incidental Genealogist https://alondonfamily.com/2018/11/01/a-portrait-of-my-grandfather/comment-page-1/#comment-612
Sun, 02 Dec 2018 10:20:28 +0000http://alondonfamily.com/?p=17561#comment-612Hi Norma, thanks for your message. I’ll get back in touch by email as it would be great to hear about Tyne Cot (I plan to visit next spring) and any other family news. Plus I’ll amend the bit in the post which says that no-one in the family has been to the memorial yet!